Dunnes - Canon colour inkjet printer €19.95

Tallon

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*eadaoin

i have no idea about printers, is this a decent one or does the price mean it's not really fantastic? cause it seems like a bargain if it makes good prints.

Ghost Train

might be worth a gamble at that price, amazon reviews look okay, are canon inkjets good for prints? have an epson thats very good, but also have a brother inkjet thats very bad

jtang

it may be 20e for the printer, but how much does a replacement set of ink packs cost?

GhostInTheRuins

About €60 probably :rolleyes:

ThOnda

The cheapest I have found in UK store was £25 for set of black and three colour cartridges, that should last 155 pages with 4% coverage.

jtang

heh it sounds like its cheaper to buy two or three printers instead of buying replacement ink packs

Sleepy

Thanks for the tip - picked up one this evening. Reckon if I can get a few shots printed off well it's worth the €20 for the learning experience alone!

m_s_nixon

Sleepy wrote: »

Thanks for the tip - picked up one this evening. Reckon if I can get a few shots printed off well it's worth the €20 for the learning experience alone!

Whereabouts did you pick it up? I went to Dunnes in The Mill, Clondalkin and they were €40! Still doesn't seem a bad price but not if I can get 2 for that :pac:

vectra

jtang wrote: »

heh it sounds like its cheaper to buy two or three printers instead of buying replacement ink packs

Remember that those inks included with the printer are only half full

Sleepy

m_s_nixon wrote: »

Whereabouts did you pick it up? I went to Dunnes in The Mill, Clondalkin and they were €40! Still doesn't seem a bad price but not if I can get 2 for that :pac:

Got mine in Cournelscort.

Anyone have experience with this printer? Any tips on how to get the best out of it? (stc, I'm looking at you here )

m_s_nixon

Picked one up in Northside, Coolock this morning, last one on the shelf

For anyone interested in getting one, there were at least a dozen of them in the Mill, Clondalkin yesterday around 3pm, they were marked €40 so they probably still have some, just bring it up to customer services and say you saw it in other Dunnes for €20 but were sold out (NB it's the iP1900 and not the iP2500)

stcstc

i dont know the printer particularly

how many inks does it have in it

most of the canon drivers are quite simple an have a best quality photo setting

the main issue you will have is you wont be able to find profiles for 3rd party papers so best stick to canon paper


this way in the descructions will be what settings to use

Sleepy

stcstc - from what I can make out it only has 4 inks, full specs here:

http://www.canon.co.uk/for_home/product_finder/printers/inkjet/PIXMA_iP1900/index.asp?specs=1

I picked up some photo paper cheap a few months ago but I've no idea if it's any use. It's inkrite Photo Gloss "Professional" 6x4 260 g/m2, Currently trying to figure out which print settings to use to get the best results out of it. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

As I develop as a photographer I'm sure I'll want to get better quality and enlargements etc which I think I'd go to someone like yourself for as I can't see printing this type of stuff at home being any way economically viable for an amateur but for now, I'm just looking to get reasonable prints for putting in albums / small frames around the house etc.

Sleepy

For anyone interested - I got just under 60 6x4 shots printed in high quality before the colour cartridge ran out. Factory cartridges always have a shorter life-span than the refills though...

Print quality is decent enough - something tells me most of the errors are mine rather than the printers as my monitor isn't calibrated for the printer and it's an old laptop screen.

Overall? For €20 you can't really go wrong.

Now. Anyone know somewhere that sells Canon CL-41 cartridges cheap? Or does anyone know if these xprint ones are any use?
http://www.mx2.co.uk/prodpage.asp?type=search&searchwhat=CL-41

stcstc

7 day shop have them

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_2&products_id=100712

*eadaoin

has anyone seen the €40 printer in any other dunnes in dublin city centre? i tried stephens green and georges st yesterday but no luck.

stabo

Just picked up one in Clonmel as was passing buy,last one on shelf. Good deal.